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HOWARD EPSTEIN: OF MORONS AND OXYMORONS
HOWARD EPSTEIN: OF MORONS AND OXYMORONS Whilst it might be indecorous – but not necessarily inaccurate – to call the prime minister of Turkey a moron, certainly he is, no doubt unwittingly, given to the oxymoron. That term is, I am sure, famil
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HOWARD EPSTEIN: EVEN WORDS CAN HURT US
HOWARD EPSTEIN: EVEN WORDS CAN HURT US Who was your politician of the year 2023? For me, the answer is Suella Braverman, who was forced out of office as Home Secretary five days after she wrote an opinion piece in The Times in which she said that there wa
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HOWARD EPSTEIN: THE CONDITION OF THE JEWS TODAY
HOWARD EPSTEIN: THE CONDITION OF THE JEWS TODAY The Black Book, a chronicle of the Shoah, written for the Soviet authorities in 1945 by their ace war correspondents, Ilyah Ehrenberg and Vasily Grossman, was the subject of partial censorship: the Soviets r
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HOWARD EPSTEIN: ISRAEL. WHY THE BEST IS YET TO COME
HOWARD EPSTEIN: ISRAEL. WHY THE BEST IS YET TO COME I finished last week’s column promising to explain why Israel’s best days are yet to come. The country is already engaged in a multi-front war and there is the near certainty of massive escalation in
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HOWARD EPSTEIN: THE WOKE DISGRACE THEMSELVES
HOWARD EPSTEIN: THE WOKE DISGRACE THEMSELVES “I shall have such revenges on you… I shall do such things … what they are yet I know not: but they shall be the terrors of the earth”. That, as proclaimed by Shakespeare’s King Lear, is what reve
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Steve Kramer – What Next for Lebanon and Israel?
Steve Kramer – What Next for Lebanon and Israel? “What to see in Beirut, the Paris of the Middle East” is actually the headline on a current travel blog! (ARWtravels.com). That’s so “1960s.” From 1975 to 1990 Lebanon went through a protrac
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HOWARD EPSTEIN – ON THE ORIGINS OF WORLD WARS
HOWARD EPSTEIN – ON THE ORIGINS OF WORLD WARS For professional historians, the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 did not mark the start of the war in the Pacific. The Japanese, who took over Manchuria (now Northeast China)
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HOWARD EPSTEIN – WARS TO END ALL WARS
HOWARD EPSTEIN – WARS TO END ALL WARS After the “War to End All Wars”, that itself ended at 11:00 hours on 11/11/1918, the next world war erupted just 21 years later. It may be that the war to end all Israeli-Arab wars was the one that occurre
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Howard Epstein – MAKING THE DESERT BOOM II
Howard Epstein – MAKING THE DESERT BOOM II Notwithstanding that the great and the good of the Knesset, and the far more numerous less-admirable MKs, are now vacationing, democracy-loving Israelis, peaceful and decorous – France please note –
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HOWARD EPSTEIN – MAKING THE DESERT BOOM
HOWARD EPSTEIN – MAKING THE DESERT BOOM Which particular piece of bad news visited the most angst upon you in the past week? The risk of the implosion of the Russian Federation, which holds the biggest stocks of nuclear weapons and in which any succ
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Howard Epstein – JUDGE ISRAEL BY THE QUALITIES OF ITS ENEMIES
Howard Epstein – JUDGE ISRAEL BY THE QUALITIES OF ITS ENEMIES You may not have noticed this (if, for example, you are no more sentient than a certain world leader in his 81st year), but Israel gets a lot of stick one way and another. Consider the nu
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Howard Epstein – THE DYSTOPIAN FUTURE THAT COULD BE ISRAEL’S
Howard Epstein – THE DYSTOPIAN FUTURE THAT COULD BE ISRAEL’S For the twentieth week in succession, Motzei Shabbat has seen hundreds of thousands protesting against the judicial reforms in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and some 150 other locations the length
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Howard Epstein – END THE PRE-OCCUPATION!
Howard Epstein – END THE PRE-OCCUPATION! The Palestinian people – whose greatest enemies are their leaders – lament the “Occupation” and ask when it will end. Their complaint is that the war of annihilation launched against Israel by
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Howard Epstein: ISRAEL: DEATH SPIRAL, CIVIL WAR – OR DELIVERANCE
Howard Epstein: ISRAEL: DEATH SPIRAL, CIVIL WAR – OR DELIVERANCE As Israel (as David Horowitz, editor of the Times of Israel, warns) careens down its death spiral, and (as President Herzog warns) teeters on the “edge of the abyss” and risks a se
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Howard Epstein – ISRAEL IN SHADOW OF THE ALTALENA
Howard Epstein – ISRAEL IN SHADOW OF THE ALTALENA Last week, I finished this column questioning whether the Knesset’s proposed get-out-of-jail-free card for the Israeli PM, if convicted of felonies by a criminal court, seemed right. The question w
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Virgin Islands Attorney General Loses Her Job Days After Suing JPMorgan Chase in Connection with the Jeffrey Epstein Pro
The Virgin Islands top prosecutor who reached a more than $105 million settlement with Jeffrey Epstein's estate has lost her job days after suing JPMorgan Chase in connection with her probe. The post Virgin Islands Attorney General Loses Her Job Days Afte
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HOWARD EPSTEIN – ISRAEL LETTER Jan. 23, 2022
HOWARD EPSTEIN – ISRAEL LETTER Jan. 23, 2022 Last week, in my spoof predictions for 2022, I referred to the 125 UN member states who voted to fund an on-going enquiry into “Israeli war crimes”. This week, I take a rather more serious and critical vi
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Howard Epstein – ISRAEL LETTER – MY PREDICTIONS FOR 2022
Howard Epstein – ISRAEL LETTER – MY PREDICTIONS FOR 2022 January In an unprecedented universal pang of guilt (and because they want unlimited supplies of a so-far-unnamed Israeli Covid-beating drug), 125 states who voted at the UN just before Chri
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HOWARD EPSTEIN – ISRAEL LETTER – THEIR LOSS IS ISRAEL’S GAIN
HOWARD EPSTEIN – ISRAEL LETTER – THEIR LOSS IS ISRAEL’S GAIN Last Sunday, the Israeli Immigration Minister announced that 27,000 new immigrants will have made Israel their home during 2021. This represents an increase of some 23% over the pr
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HOWARD EPSTEIN’S LETTER FROM ISRAEL OUR SPIES IN THEIR MIDST
HOWARD EPSTEIN’S LETTER FROM ISRAEL OUR SPIES IN THEIR MIDST Imagine a darkened stage, suddenly illuminated with three pools of light. Now the audience sees the same number of actors, two men, and a woman. Thus opens Michael Frayn’s 1988 play ‘Cop
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HOWARD EPSTEIN – THE PALESTINIANS SAY ALL OR NOTHING – AGAIN!
HOWARD EPSTEIN – THE PALESTINIANS SAY ALL OR NOTHING – AGAIN! Monday the 29th November, a portentous date for Jews and more especially for Israelis. On that date in 1947, the United Nations General Assembly voted by 33 to 13 (with 10 abstentio
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HOWARD EPSTEIN – LETTER FROM ISRAEL – Giving Iran Repeated Nudges
HOWARD EPSTEIN – LETTER FROM ISRAEL – Giving Iran Repeated Nudges Messages, messages. The past week was one of messages, sent out by Israel to friends and foes. A rare daylight airstrike against weapons caches around Damascus of Hezbollah and
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Howard Epstein – LETTER FROM ISRAEL: Russia and Jews
Howard Epstein – LETTER FROM ISRAEL: Russia and Jews If there is one bilateral relationship that Jews have had to endure, rather than enjoy, over the centuries, it has been that with the Russians. In 1827, Nicholas I proclaimed his Statute on Conscr
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HOWARD EPSTEIN – LETTER FROM ISRAEL: Abraham Accords and Beyond
HOWARD EPSTEIN – LETTER FROM ISRAEL: Abraham Accords and Beyond Last week the Israeli newspapers were as exercised as the British about the threats to Taiwan, aka the Republic of China, from its somewhat larger neighbour, the People’s Republic of Chin
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Howard Epstein – LETTER FROM ISRAEL – Israeli Arabs
Howard Epstein – LETTER FROM ISRAEL – Israeli Arabs Last week, in case there were readers who had been unaware, I dwelt upon the huge contribution to Israeli society of its Moroccan community. This week, having just returned from a couple of days
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Howard Epstein – LETTER FROM ISRAEL: Morocco
Howard Epstein – LETTER FROM ISRAEL: Morocco In Israel last weekend, it was announced that Defence Minister Benny Gantz is planning to visit Morocco to sign cooperation deals to develop for them a drone industry. Morocco is, of course a long way fro
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Howard Epstein – LETTER FROM ISRAEL Oct. 2021
Howard Epstein – LETTER FROM ISRAEL Oct. 2021 As we, in Israel, gladly received evidence last weekend that we are (so far as the presently known variants of Covid are concerned) almost certainly over the worst, we now have a new worry: the Squad. As
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Howard Epstein – LETTER FROM ISRAEL Sept. 2021
Howard Epstein – LETTER FROM ISRAEL Sept. 2021 What images should Kol Nidrei, the eve of Yom Kippur, conjure up? A fleeting, wistful image of apple dipped in honey. Pomegranates? Preparing to bestow forgiveness on those who might have slighted us in
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Howard Epstein – LETTER FROM ISRAEL BRING ON THE LADIES
Howard Epstein – LETTER FROM ISRAEL BRING ON THE LADIES Amongst all the news – or noise – about satisfying Hamas over how much money they should be provided with by Qatar in order not to go to war with Israel once more – after only two mon
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Howard Epstein – LETTER FROM ISRAEL: GYMNASTICS AND CONTORTIONS
Howard Epstein – LETTER FROM ISRAEL: GYMNASTICS AND CONTORTIONS There cannot be many in Israel – other than within Bnei Brak and the Meah Shearim, perhaps – whose chest did not swell with pride last weekend at the brilliant achievement of Linoy
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Howard Epstein – LETTER FROM ISRAEL – 30 JULY 2021
Howard Epstein – LETTER FROM ISRAEL – 30 JULY 2021 Prince Charles – now there’s an opening to this Letter for you – in an interview with Sky News in November 2015, suggested that the Syrian Civil War, was caused by a long drought tha
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Howard Epstein – LETTER FROM ISRAEL – “The Day of Our Fatal Divisiveness”: REFLECTIONS ON TISHA B’AV
Howard Epstein – LETTER FROM ISRAEL – “The Day of Our Fatal Divisiveness”: REFLECTIONS ON TISHA B’AV On Tisha b’Av, that might justifiably be subtitled: “The Day of Our Fatal Divisiveness”, we in Israel are all too aware of the
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Howard Epstein – Letter From Israel July, 2021
Howard Epstein – Letter From Israel July 2021 Having written this Letter for over two months with barely, if ever, a remark about my adoptive country that was less than flattering, not to say adulatory, my final comment last week was that I would re
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Howard Epstein – A LESS COSMETIC USE FOR THE LASER
Howard Epstein – A LESS COSMETIC USE FOR THE LASER Masks are back! Yet the most doubly–vaccinated country (excluding places like The Falklands and Gibraltar) is not expecting another Covid wave. Israeli health experts consider two Pfizer shots to
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Howard Epstein – LETTER FROM ISRAEL: A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER IN THE KNESSET
Howard Epstein – LETTER FROM ISRAEL: A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER IN THE KNESSET You do not need me to tell you that Israel has a new prime minister and that this is the first time that those words have been written since January 2009. Since then, Israel
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Howard Epstein – LETTER FROM ISRAEL – THE ENIGMATIC NATION
Howard Epstein – LETTER FROM ISRAEL – THE ENIGMATIC NATION As the political corpus of Binyamin Netanyahu appears to be entering its final death throes – I have been on the cusp of reporting on the post-Bibi age for a month now – hi
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Howard Epstein – LETTER FROM ISRAEL – TRAUMA IN THE AFTERMATH
Howard Epstein – LETTER FROM ISRAEL – TRAUMA IN THE AFTERMATH As life in Israel settles back towards what was normal over fifteen months ago, with restaurants bustling, people in the streets without masks and no risk of an air raid siren pierc
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“He Said Not to Tell Anyone”: How Trump Kept Tabs on Jeffrey Epstein
In the months before he ran for president, Donald Trump was in conversation with National Enquirer owner David Pecker about his old acquaintance, Jeffrey Epstein, and how his sexual abuse scandal might affect the Clintons.
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Meet The Madam: Epstein Arrest Casts Spotlight On Clinton-Linked Socialite
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